THE NEW YORKER it up the second time he dropped in on her. Evidently she had had some talks with a Catholic. She asked bluntly, "If yOU] God is so good and kind, how can he let people suffer like this?" She made a gesture which took in her shrunken leg, the other patients in her room, and Hiroshima as a whole. "My child," Father Kleinsorge said, "man is not now in the condition God intended. He has fallen from grace through sin." And he went on to ex- plain all the reasons for everything. I T came to Mrs. Nakamura's atten- tion that a carpenter from Kabe was building a number of wooden shanties in Hiroshima which he rented for fifty } en a month-$3.33, at the fixed rate of exchange. Mrs. Nakamura had lost the certificates for her bonds and other wartime savings, but fortunately she had copied off all the numbers just a few days before the bombing and had taken the list to Kabe, and so, when her hair had grown in enough for her to be presentable, she went to her bank in Hiroshima, and a clerk there told her that after checking her numbers against the records the bank would give her her money. As soon as she got it, she rented one of the carpenter's shacks. It was in N ohori-cho, near the site of her former house, and though its floor was dirt and Ü was dark inside, it was at least a home jn Hiroshima, and she was po longer de- pendent on the charity of her in-law-s. During the spring, she cleared away some nearby wreckage and planted a vegetable garden. She cooked with utensils and ate off plates she scavenged from the debris. She sent Myeko to the kindergarten which the Jesuits reopened, and the two older children attended Nobori-cho Primary School, which, for want of buildings, held classes out of doors. Toshio wanted to studv to be a mechanic, like his hero, Hideo Osaki. Prices were high; by midsummer :Nirs. Nakamura's savings were gone. She sold some of her clothes to get food. She had once had several expensive ki- monos, but during the war one had been stolen, she had given one to a sister who had heen homhed out in Tokuyama, she had lost a couple in the Hiroshima homh- ing, and now she sold her last one. It brought only a hundred yen, which did not last long. In June, she went to Father Kleinsorge for advice about how to get along, and in early August, she was still considering the two alternatives he suggested-taking work as a do- mestic for some of the Allied occupation forces, or borrowing from her relatives enough money, about five hundred yen, \ 63 Money's worth in everything school boys wear! From 5 years up! ne modem Rogers Peet rates tops at many of the country's leading schools. , . . : \ t:i ", ':...:': :.:;:::.... Amazing how style-con- scious prep school men are! VIe know because the mod- ern Rogers Peet rates "tops"at many of the country's leading schools. Money's worth-alwa.vs! Families vacationing in the East are invited to charge their purchases either at our Boston or N ew York stores. The charge accounts you have in your home city will serve as your reference. "':'. ".;...: ;.:." .... M&&fd'ar dk '.':::::;I,ltt :: .::t : : :f t[;:? ::::: if::;.:::: ::.:. <t::.. ::;:" :.:::::.::" ,,:::: ; .{"'::;::{ :::': :::::" : '::":::'- :,:E:.:" ;:::' ..:'{'. '" '. t.:;-, . .,:::::..:....\:...S "":,#j.; .. .111/ new '1.)...,'00/. No re- used or re-þrocessed 'UJool, In New York: Fifth Avenue at 41st Street Warren Street at Broadway And in Boston: Tremon t St. at Bromfield St. ThIrteen th St. at Broadway . ïó!*:::::::'. . :@,i?;gir$ W X:: : . } .'Æ : <<W "-= " " " " " ::Ab. "$ft:::::.'WY ',", " "" " :.: H',.lH , " ml v' "... .,. +. ". r4 'i;}t/\(.i' >i :!;{.; ;' i;'':'!; E..JOY.A MEM ERSH.P "$I' Mt ,Ii vVw ... w'="'i[ In the worlds · Start each morning right ,vith a dash of cool,,; tingling Aqua Velva on your face after shaving. Tang-y as sea spray, Aqua Velva has a clean, pleasant scent that men like. It refreshes your face-leaves it feeling softer and smoother. h , tE ; t YO :t :; :! ! ;I : r :: : II..! c.,....- r!1/.,w<ra , ;::. of well-groomed men every- 7:> .' V bu;:'eJ ..':: ::so e a: : {/v , , .":. . '. _. . preparations for over 100 years. -', --- '-..-' ""::::.: ;..:..;.